Table 3.

Estimates of genetic differentiation calculated as F _ST for all pairs of cattle breeds/lineages

Breed/lineage	Kortegaard (n = 20)	Oregaard (n = 20)	Vesterbølle (n = 20)	Westergaard (n = 16)	Old bulls pre‐1980 (n = 15)	Old bulls post‐1980 (n=14a)	SDM‐1965 (n = 20)	Vestlandsk Fjordfe (n = 21)	Vestlandsk Raudkolle (n = 19)	Faroe cattle (n = 8)	Danish Holstein (n = 9)
Jutland Oregaard‐lineage (n = 20)	0.1034	–
Jutland Vesterbølle‐lineage (n = 20)	0.1047	0.0780	–
Jutland Westergaard‐lineage (n = 16)	0.1822	0.1457	0.1238	–
Old bulls pre‐1980 (n = 15)	0.1121	0.0959	0.0709	0.1403	–
Old bulls post‐1980 (n=14a)	0.0609	0.0487	−0.00091	0.1046	0.0486	–
SDM‐1965 (n = 20)	0.1192	0.0995	0.0701	0.1403	0.01632	0.0491	–
Western Norwegian Fjord cattle (n = 21)	0.1371	0.1159	0.1016	0.1618	0.0833	0.0801	0.0919	–
Western Norwegian Red‐polled cattle (n = 19)	0.1589	0.1358	0.1217	0.1838	0.1048	0.1007	0.1125	0.0713	–
Faroe cattle (n = 8)	0.1742	0.1488	0.1301	0.2030	0.1061	0.1069	0.1148	0.0849	0.1142	–
Holstein (n = 9)	0.1565	0.1326	0.1096	0.1866	0.0872	0.0866	0.0898	0.0900	0.1116	0.1131	–
Jersey (n = 9)	0.2180	0.1912	0.1749	0.2474	0.1547	0.1529	0.1614	0.1242	0.1524	0.1711	0.15783

All pairwise comparisons were significant at p < 0.001, except the values marked with 1 (p = 0.463), 2 (p = 0.004) and 3 (p = 0.002) after overall Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons (Rice, 1989) (K = 66).

^aIncluding only cryopreserved semen samples of n = 14 Danish Jutland cattle recognized in the studbook.